Bird watchers across Texas drove to Nixon to get a glimpse of the double-striped thick-knee bird on Sunday, Sept. 14. Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...
Brian Stokes is a “birder,” and his specialty is green jays. As a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, Stokes spends his free time scrolling online, sleuthing around for bird ...
Birders across Texas dropped everything this past weekend when a once-in-a-lifetime sighting was reported in Wilson County: a double-striped thick-knee—a rare and strange-looking shorebird not seen in ...
The amber-listed Manx Shearwater has bred on Rathlin Island for the first time in decades. And hopes are now high that their population will grow again. The bird was once present on the island in ...
After 64 years, Texas bird watchers celebrated a rare sighting of a double-striped thick-knee bird in Wilson County on Sunday, Sept. 14. The bird was spotted on private property near Nixon, Texas, ...